Confusion about when it's my navigation, and when it's ATC

Sam Spade writes:

The King Air, on autopilot, will not maintain the set vertical speed if
the IAS drops below 120 knots or so. It will nose-dive and crash. Not
so with a real King Air.

Does the King Air allow you to set a vertical speed? What happens on
the real aircraft?

Cross winds on autopilot are not handled correctly on an RNAV approach.

Which autopilot? What does it do incorrectly?

Strong winds aloft dramatically affect IAS in a holding pattern, which
is wrong beyond belief.

I'll have to look.

That is my short list.

I don't recall ever flying the King Air, but I'll try to remember to
look at the other things the next time the opportunity arises.

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Mxsmanic wrote:

What happens on the real aircraft?

They crash. Real airplanes easily crash, despite what even
a King Air pilot I know well tells me. Not exactly a
pussycat, but a solid, predictable machine. Heck, he's just
a "blowhard," to use your word. Please also ignore any
alleged pilot here who tells you anything. The Microsoft
Games Development Team are the real gurus; I though we
stipulated that hundreds of posts ago.

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TxSrv writes:

They crash.

But that is supposedly what MSFS also does, so it's correct.

If you can give me precise instructions on what to try and what the
result should be, I'll try it on MSFS. I don't know much about the
King Air.

Please also ignore any alleged pilot here who tells you
anything.

I never ignore; but I don't unconditionally believe, either.

The Microsoft Games Development Team are the real gurus; I
though we stipulated that hundreds of posts ago.

Many of the developers who have worked on MSFS over the years have
been pilots, too.

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TxSrv wrote:

Microsoft Games Development Team are the real gurus;

Actually one of them pretty much told him he was full of sh!t.

Mxsmanic wrote:

Sam Spade writes:


The King Air, on autopilot, will not maintain the set vertical speed if
the IAS drops below 120 knots or so. It will nose-dive and crash. Not
so with a real King Air.


Does the King Air allow you to set a vertical speed? What happens on
the real aircraft?


Cross winds on autopilot are not handled correctly on an RNAV approach.


Which autopilot? What does it do incorrectly?


Strong winds aloft dramatically affect IAS in a holding pattern, which
is wrong beyond belief.


I'll have to look.


That is my short list.


I don't recall ever flying the King Air, but I'll try to remember to
look at the other things the next time the opportunity arises.

Again, you're handicaped because you have no experience in comperable
aircraft.

You are a total waste of time.

Mxsmanic wrote:

All in all, the realism is striking, and much better than some
detractors like to believe.

The realism is very striking. That doesn't make it REAL, however. By
definition.

bdl wrote:

Mxsmanic wrote:


All in all, the realism is striking, and much better than some
detractors like to believe.


The realism is very striking. That doesn't make it REAL, however. By
definition.

The topography is striking. The realizm is zip.

Sam Spade wrote:
bdl wrote:

Mxsmanic wrote:


All in all, the realism is striking, and much better than some
detractors like to believe.


The realism is very striking. That doesn't make it REAL, however. By
definition.

The topography is striking. The realizm is zip.

And the topography wasn't that striking till they fixed the bridges...

bdl writes:

The realism is very striking. That doesn't make it REAL, however.

As long as the realism is striking, it doesn't have to be real. The
whole purpose of simulation is realism without reality, after all.

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Mxsmanic wrote:
bdl writes:


The realism is very striking. That doesn't make it REAL, however.


As long as the realism is striking, it doesn't have to be real. The
whole purpose of simulation is realism without reality, after all.

In the context of aviation the purpose of simulation is to faithfully
duplicate the aircraft flight deck, panels and systems, motion, and
outside visual references so that pilot qualification in the simulator
translates into pilot qualification in the aircraft.